According to an app on my phone that tracks my phone usage, I use it for 3.5 hours every day. This is a number I\u2019m almost too embarrassed to admit. Nevertheless, acknowledging this number helps me with my goal of decreasing how much I use my phone. With this goal in mind, I figured I would use my \u201crewire\u201d experience to find a way that would complicate the way I use my phone so that my usage time would drop. Therefore, I attempted to only use my left hand when using my phone to make my user experience less seamless. Regardless to say, I am a righty (as my name implies; pun intended).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was weird to use all the apps with my left hand. I found it somewhat tiresome and inconvenient. Truth be told, old habits die hard and I often remembered about my goal only after having spent some time on my phone, using both of my hands. Nevertheless, when I did remember about it, my experience on my phone got a lot more complicated. Especially when texting. This made me stop my sessions on my phone faster, but I believe the main reason for that was not the inconvenience. Rather, whenever I remembered about the necessity to use the left hand, I also remembered about my goal to stop using my phone without a purpose, which then made me end the session on the phone. Therefore, I believe this \u201crewire\u201d experience was a success. Nevertheless, I suspect that over time using my left hand would have become normal and I might have returned to my old habits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On top of that, I was also curious to see if I will notice if\nsome apps have a bias for right handed people. By this I mean, that I was trying\nto pay attention whether some apps are objectively easier to use if a person is\nright handed \u2013 similar to how regular scissors are meant for right handed\npeople. I found that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These might be small details, but it is clear the apps were\ndesigned for right handed people. I found it interesting to observe this as I\nwould normally not pay attention to this. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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